Saturday, February 19, 2005

Another Musical Interlude

From Anonymous:

With apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan and the Pirate’sof Penzance

NANOS:I am the very model of a former Naval AdmiralI’ve information vegetable, animal and mineralI know the kings of England, and I quote the fightshistoricalFrom Wen Ho Lee, to Waterloo in order categoricalI’m very well acquainted, too, with mattersmathematicalI understand equations, both the simple andquadraticalAbout the missing disks I am teeming with a loto’news,…lot o’ news.….with many cheerful facts about the futures of thelot of you.

ALL:With many cheerful facts about the futures of the lotof youWith many cheerful facts about the futures of the lotof youWith many cheerful facts about the futures of the lotof you

NANOS:I’m very good at integral and differential calculus;With accuracy or peer review, I rarely make a lot offuss.In short in matters trivial, fantastic, or incredible,

I am the very model of a former Naval Admiral

ALLIn short, in matters trivial, fantastic, orincredible,He is the very model of a former Naval Admiral.

NANOS:I know our mythic history from Teller to old what’shis nameI answer hard acrostics, and basically I have noshame.I quote Appendix F and other administratiumSomeday they hope I’ll even learn to spell plutonium.

ALL:Someday we hope he’ll even learn to spell plutonium.Someday we hope he’ll even learn to spell plutonium.Someday we hope he’ll even learn to spell plutonium.

NANOS:I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,And tell you every detail of Foley’s aging uniform.In short in matters trivial, fantastic, or incredibleI am the very model of a former Naval Admiral.

ALL:In short, in matters trivial, fantastic, orincredible,He is the very model of a former Naval Admiral.

NANOS:When I know what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”When I can tell at sight a Cowboy from an IndianWhen such affairs as safety and security I’m more waryat,And when I know precisely where the barcodes arelocated atWhen I have learnt what progress has been made inmodern hydrotestsI can rid my self of experts and those pesky agingphysicists.In short when I’ve a smattering of elemental strategyYou’ll see when talking smack, no one is quite as goodas me.

ALL:You’ll see when talking smack, no one is quite as goodas he.You’ll see when talking smack, no one is quite as goodas he.You’ll see when talking smack, no one is quite as goodas he.

NANOS:In scientific knowledge, though I’m plucky andadventury,I’m mastering the concept of the turning of a centuryIn short in matters trivial, fantastic, or incredibleI am the very model of a former Naval Admiral

ALL:In short in matters trivial, fantastic or incredibleHe is the very model of a formal LANL Admiral.

Just a little farther down the page on this WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL Blog (O, Beloved Blog-One) is another story about "The Conspiracy of Carlyle." For self-consistency, I post a double-riposte a-Nano-mous comment; here goes:

Hey, the Carlyle Group could be equally well covered under the song from "The Pirates of Penzance." The Admirals (Nanos, Brooks, and Foley) could be competing for the role of the Captain of the HMS Pinafore (who sings, "Tho' 'bother it' I may occasionally say, I never use a big, big, D!").

BetrayalSuffered consequenceIt's been so long any piece of this made any kind of senseYou anoint the king, I'll burn everythingdown to ashes.You giveth, I taketh awayIt's a system now, intertwined.Take you place in the line to be ground by the gears of the materpiece.Betrayal